Awesome Videos

In what might possibly be the most infamous autocorrect fail of all time, the creators of Replay were showing off their app at Apple’s iPad Air 2 launch – which was broadcasted live – when the tool intervened. Poor guy.

When someone feels compelled to record an otherwise mundane event, it either has to have an ingenious or a disastrous twist. The line between the two is wire-thin. Literally in this case. The dude at the end should’ve brought a mic to drop.

We’ve seen snowboarding in an LED suit, and it looked amazing, and this ski footage with a colorful LED suits is equally awesome. Created by Sweetgrass Productions and Ahlstrand & Wållgren to promote Philips Ambilight tech.

(NSFW: Language) In this video from late 2013, a group of U.S. Marines came under attack from a Taliban sniper. An otherwise deadly headshot was stopped in its tracks by a life-saving Kevlar helmet. Boy, that was too close. Mirror here.

The drum crew from the U.S. III Marine Expeditionary Force challenged the Republic of Korea Army Band to a battle of the bands. The Koreans shot first, but the Marines came right back and gave them a taste of their own medicine.

(NSFW: Language) Apparently these folks were at the DMV when this wild crow dropped by. After sizing up his human homie, the bird decided that he didn’t care for the guy. The title of the video says it all.

(NSFW: Language) You call the hotline. You select options until you’ve entered all the digits of pi. You and the agents play a game of hot potato, and you’re the potato. Seriously who thought this was a good idea?

Is there anything that Rob Scallon can’t play? Here he is in a tiny closet, playing a concert with the smallest bass on the market – a tiny ukulele-sized bass thumping out the jams – and the smallest amp and pedal set up too.

In 2012 DDB Shanghai made this awareness campaign about Internet and computer addiction. The ad agency made a keyboard-shaped sculpture showing the likenesses of addicts and their loved ones trapped in the keys.

Film critic Tony Zhou imparts a wealth of knowledge in this quick episode of Every Frame a Painting, as he points out how director Jonathan Demme differentiated the dominator from the dominated in The Silence of the Lambs.

Russian fishermen accidentally caught a sea lion in a net, and it was none too happy to find itself aboard their boat, tossing aside one crew member like rag doll and biting their dog. Eventually, they used a hose to drive him off the boat.

With songs like Sexy M.F. and Darling Nikki in his repertoire, we never thought we’d see Prince singing with Muppets. But that’s exactly what he did back in 1997, in this obscure bit of footage from The Disney Channel’s Muppets Tonight.

This dude is the exact opposite of the awesome audience guys. In one of Snollebollkes’ live performances of his tacky booty-shaking song Bam Bam (Bam), the show suddenly cut to this man. Put the beer down and be yourself!

Stop-motion animator Adam Brown appropriately used the discontinued Construx building toys in the music video for Construxon Time Again, a song by synthwave artist Jacob 2-2 (an alias that may also be familiar to ’80s kids).

YouTuber Marca Blanca re-cut the title sequence of The Walking Dead and replaced the undead with the unsober. Featuring the Uphill Drunk and Bizarro Tim Cook, but sadly not the Metaphor for Life. Original videos here.

YouTuber karenxcheng demonstrates the donut selfie. It’s a series of short clips that you take by moving your phone’s camera around your head, creating a close up pseudo-time lapse. The hypnotized expression is optional.

(NSFW: Language) A young girl living on the outskirts of a derelict town is forbidden by her father to go outside, and for a good reason. Bridle Path Films’ short film is about, power, responsibility and acceptance.

David Weinstein’s short science fiction film explores the relationship between a boy and a powerful, but misunderstood alien. It’s kind of a live-action homage to The Iron Giant., but it also stands on its own. (Thanks David!)

A documentary about former CIA and DIA employee Edward Snowden and the NSA scandal by award-winning journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras. Laura is one of the first journalists to receive copies of leaked NSA files from Edward.

In a recent Conan episode, a woman from the audience gave the host a fairly specific compliment, which was followed by an even more specific explanation. At least her second sign made up for the first one. Or did it?

The guys at Mental Floss explore some of the stranger things that people have requested happen with their belongings when they passed on. Clearly, some were well-intentioned, while many just wanted the last laugh.

It’s been 15 years since Tyler Durden laid out the extensive list of rules of Fight Club. Now relive the classic movie about violence, mayhem, anti-consumerism, and… littering?.. courtesy of our friends at Honest Trailers.

For those unfamiliar with RiffTrax, it’s an improv show from the guys behind Mystery Science Theater 3000, who go on tour poking fun at B-movies. Here, they give us new appreciation for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.